Listed Building: HALL FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING SHIPPON TO EAST (1213092)

COUNTISBURY HALL HILL SS 74 NE 4/35 Hall Farmhouse and adjoining - shippon to east - GV II Farmhouse, now house. Probably early C16, remodelled in the early to mid C17, and kitchen range added in the early to mid - C18 and further remodelled in the late C18. Some alterations and minor additions of the late C19. Painted coursed stone rubble, rendered to front. Some cob in kitchen wing. Gable-ended Welsh slate roof, with separate hipped slate roof over kitchen range. Plan and development: C16 3-room-and-through-passage house, facing south. Open hall house, formerly open to the roof from end to end, probably with low partitions. Floored in stages, that over the inner room jettied into the hall. Hall probably floored last, although the lateral (formerly external) stone stack to the rear might be slightly earlier. Integral end stack to inner room and lateral stack to rear of lower room. Parallel kitchen range added to rear of hall and inner room in the early C18, sharing hall stack. Staircase inserted in wide through-passage in the late C18, and eaves possibly raised at the same time. C19 gabled dairy to rear of lower room and lean-to porch over rear entrance, possibly the remains of a larger lean-to. 2 storeys. Exterior: asymmetrical but regular 4-window south front; late C18 small-paned 2- light wooden casements. Late C20 glazed door to right with C20 segmental tympanum. Late C20 French casements at left-hand end of front. Straight masonry joints in left-hand gable end indicate former roof line. Rear: nail-studded boarded rear door to through-passage, probably relocated in porch. First-floor 3-light wooden casement above door. Kitchen range and pair of first-floor 2-light wooden casements and one ground floor 2-light wooden casement. Interior: C16 4-bay roof; 3 smoke-blackened C16 trusses, possibly jointed crucks (see reused jointed timber in lower room fireplace), with notched mortice and tenoned apices and trenches for former diagonally set ridge piece and trenched purlins. Late C19 roof construction above C16 trusses. C18 4-bay roof over kitchen range consisting of trusses with principals (including hip principals) and trenched purlins. Hall has C17 chamfered cross beam with scroll stops, and C20 fireplace to rear, probably in front of earlier fireplace. Internal jetty to left with chamfered and stopped bressumer resting on 3 projecting beams with chamfered corners and ends. Inner room has chamfered spine beam with run-out stops. Lower end room has two ceiling levels and pair of late C18 square-headed niches with shaped shelves and corner cupboards with raised-and-fielded panelled doors. Pegged jointed timber reused as mantelshelf in late C20 fireplace; owner (July 1987) reports that it was taken out of the foot of the north principal of the right-hand roof truss, suggesting that the trusses are side-pegged jointed crucks. Late C18 internal remodelling throughout house including doors of 4 raised and fielded panels and pairs of internal window shutters to ground-floor rooms, each shutter with 2 raised and fielded panels. Late C18 staircase inserted in cross passage with stick balusters to landing and tapered square-beaded newels with acorn finials, foot of stairs and passageway to left formerly with doors. Large kitchen fireplace with stone jambs, wooden lintel and probably C19 chamfered and stopped surround. C18 winder stair rising from kitchen; old boarded door to cupboard underneath with H-L hinges. Shippon: adjoining to east. Probably late C18 or early C19. Coursed sandstone rubble with slate roof. 1 storey and loft. Central boarded loft door, ground-floor window with wooden lintel, and small vent to left. Half-height boarded door to left with wooden lintel. Door and window in right-hand gable end, both with wooden lintels. Boarded door to rear too. Interior with cross beams for loft (floor removed at time of survey - July 1987) and 2 trusses with straight principals and collars. Listing NGR: SS7712948372